If you've outgrown sending letters to the North Pole, NASA has an even more remote destination for you: the International Space Station.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has set up a Web site to send postcards to the five crew members currently aboard the station. The Expedition 18 crew includes three from America, one from Russia and one from Japan.
"NASA and scientists so often in general get accused of being fuddy-duddies, but it's fun when NASA comes out with something like this," said Patrick Wiggins, NASA Solar System Ambassador to Utah. "The idea of communicating with the space station is kind of fun for kids and big kids, like me."
Four different e-postcards are available at http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/postcard.
The NASA astronauts are Greg Chamitoff, Michael Fincke and Sandra Magnus. The Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut is Yury Lonchakov and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut is Koichi Wakata.
